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Author Grant, Oliver

Title Migration and inequality in Germany, 1870-1913 / Oliver Grant
Published Oxford : Clarendon, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 406 pages) : charts
Series Oxford historical monographs
Oxford historical monographs.
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Imperial Germany as an Example of Industrialization Under Labour Surplus Conditions -- 2. Sources of Inequality in Rural Germany -- 3. The Pattern of Migration -- 4. Migration in Germany 1870-1913: A Statistical Analysis -- 5. Demography and Migration -- 6. Migration, Farm Size, and the Condition of the Agricultural Labourer -- 7. Agricultural Productivity, Labour Surplus, and Migration -- 8. Migration and Urban Labour Markets -- 9. Industrialization, Migration, and Inequality -- 10. Challenging the Kehrite View of Imperial Germany -- References and Sources
Summary Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913 is a rigorous analysis of migration in Germany within the demographic and socio-economic contexts of the period studied. Focusing particularly on the rural labour market and the factors affecting it, it also examines the 'pull' factor to cities, and offers more nuanced interpretations of German industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. - ;Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913 presents a new view of German history in the late nineteenth century. Dr Grant argues that many of the problems of Imperial Germany were
Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed March 30, 2009)
Includes statistical tables
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-388) and index
Subject Equality -- Germany -- History
Migration, Internal -- Germany -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Equality
Migration, Internal
Migratie (demografie)
Sociale ongelijkheid.
Economische ontwikkeling.
Industrialisatie.
Germany
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006272826
ISBN 0199276560
9780199276561
1423770870
9781423770879
9786610758432
6610758433